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Brian Swartz · 09-15-2017, 07:46 PM

Shanghai

The slow fall continues for Mehul/Kroese, who lost routinely to #2s Podkopayez/Cordovez in the quarterfinals. Shyam Senepathy was awarded a wild-card, which he promptly squandered in a bad 6-1, 6-3 loss to Zakirov in the first round. Ah well. It's one of those points of the year where his insistence on playing every.single.week really hurts him.

(12) Stefano Espinoza lost badly to Cojanovic on the first day; everyone else kept on moving. Old fart Nicklas almost stopped Zarco early in a three-tiebreak epic the next day. Most of the press went to WC Alexey Nikitin for his easy upset of 7th-ranked Johnny Browne though. Looks like he's starting to figure out what professional tennis is all about here towards the end of the season. Mooljee had all he wanted to handle from Luc Janin, but pulled through and there were no further suprises.

Martin Zarco couldn't escape in the third round, with Piazzola doing the honors in straight sets. Good win there for him. Prakash Mooljee dropped a tiebreak to Schmucker, then finished strong with a 6-1 final set to advance. Dudwadkar was pushed by Matthew Panter, a theme on the bottom half of the draw with a number of rising players coming up short. Hsuang-tsung Teng couldn't quite get through Dircx, and Nikitin was no match for the wiles of the veteran Cojanovic. Six Top 8 players into the quarters, with (15)Ruben Piazzola and Blagota Cojanovic the outliers. The latter is 30 years of age and hadn't been this far in almost two years. Didn't stay long either, taking only three games from Dircx. Piazzola, matched up with Kaspar, did even worse(6-1, 6-1). In the other two, Mooljee took the only close match of the round, 7-5, 7-6(2) over Sigmund Kronecker, while Ritwik Dudwadkar was pretty soundly beaten by Fangio. Can't really blame him for that one.

Top four through the semis, and Mooljee took the worst beating I've seen him take in I can't remember when from Mateo Kaspar. Losing isn't a surprise; losing 6-2, 6-0 when you are the 4th-ranked player in the world is though. Yuck. Gillo Fangio dismissed Dircx in a match that wasn't all that much closer. The Italian seems to be slowly turning it on and separating himself from the pack. His reward of course was another straight-sets loss to the king, but what else is new.

09-15-2017, 07:46 PM	#680
Brian Swartz Grizzled Veteran Join Date: May 2006	Shanghai The slow fall continues for Mehul/Kroese, who lost routinely to #2s Podkopayez/Cordovez in the quarterfinals. Shyam Senepathy was awarded a wild-card, which he promptly squandered in a bad 6-1, 6-3 loss to Zakirov in the first round. Ah well. It's one of those points of the year where his insistence on playing every.single.week really hurts him. (12) Stefano Espinoza lost badly to Cojanovic on the first day; everyone else kept on moving. Old fart Nicklas almost stopped Zarco early in a three-tiebreak epic the next day. Most of the press went to WC Alexey Nikitin for his easy upset of 7th-ranked Johnny Browne though. Looks like he's starting to figure out what professional tennis is all about here towards the end of the season. Mooljee had all he wanted to handle from Luc Janin, but pulled through and there were no further suprises. Martin Zarco couldn't escape in the third round, with Piazzola doing the honors in straight sets. Good win there for him. Prakash Mooljee dropped a tiebreak to Schmucker, then finished strong with a 6-1 final set to advance. Dudwadkar was pushed by Matthew Panter, a theme on the bottom half of the draw with a number of rising players coming up short. Hsuang-tsung Teng couldn't quite get through Dircx, and Nikitin was no match for the wiles of the veteran Cojanovic. Six Top 8 players into the quarters, with (15)Ruben Piazzola and Blagota Cojanovic the outliers. The latter is 30 years of age and hadn't been this far in almost two years. Didn't stay long either, taking only three games from Dircx. Piazzola, matched up with Kaspar, did even worse(6-1, 6-1). In the other two, Mooljee took the only close match of the round, 7-5, 7-6(2) over Sigmund Kronecker, while Ritwik Dudwadkar was pretty soundly beaten by Fangio. Can't really blame him for that one. Top four through the semis, and Mooljee took the worst beating I've seen him take in I can't remember when from Mateo Kaspar. Losing isn't a surprise; losing 6-2, 6-0 when you are the 4th-ranked player in the world is though. Yuck. Gillo Fangio dismissed Dircx in a match that wasn't all that much closer. The Italian seems to be slowly turning it on and separating himself from the pack. His reward of course was another straight-sets loss to the king, but what else is new.